(Image Credit: Wikipedia) The car was down at Al Futtaim, going through the process of leaching several thousand dirhams from my b...

This is not a radio ad, but only marginally less annoying. This is Cynthia Dreamy Whingy Breathy Voice. Come to extravagant opulenc...

Sheikh Rashid opens the Hatta Fort, 1981 We walked into the reception of the Hatta Fort and peered around the transformed area. '...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Oh golly, oh gosh! I nearly missed it. Happy Birthday, Fake Plastic Souks! Ten years ago this month, I was ...

 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I can remember a chap at a conference referring to mobiles as 'the third screen' (after TV and PC) ...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) It was thirty years ago when I first travelled to the Arabian Gulf (Wikipedia says Persian Gulf, but then ...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) My first short-cut into Dubai from Sharjah was a wee desert track which ran through low dunes and came...

This delicious image was brought to my attention courtesy Mr  +Gerald Donovan *, whose laconic 'Was she indeed?' on Twitter open...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I don't quite remember why, but I looked up the place I live on Wikipedia a while ago. Al Heera is a s...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Gosh, the UAE is 43! The UAE celebrates its 43rd National Day tomorrow, the ...

I might have forgotten to mention this (I didn't? Oh, goodie !), but kids' author Rachel Hamilton and I will be on the Terrace a...

 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The Gillette website is a hoot. One of the sections of the site, richly packed with relevant content , is...

When it opened, something like 20 years ago, JW's Steakhouse was the place to go in Dubai. I kid you not. People flocked to the join...

"Dubai has nothing. No culture, no history, no character. It has no heart, no spirit, no traditions... It's not a real city, it...

Gulf News is breathlessly presenting the World Cup match winner choices of 'Shaheen', a camel apparently blessed with octopus-li...

(Photo credit: lipjin ) HSBC has, in a moment of rare brilliance, broken its IVR. Not that it was ever an IVR to write home about in ...

(Photo credit: Wikipedia ) There I am minding my own business yesterday and then wooah what was that? It's a strange fe...